In 2023, agricultural production in Russia fell by 0.3%. For comparison: in the previous year 2022 it grew by 11.3%.

Currently, Russia is undergoing an experiment on labeling vegetable oils and animal feed, but the initiative could be launched in full this year.

It is planned that this January wheat supplies from the Russian Federation will amount to about 3.7 million tons. For the same period last year, this figure was 4.26 million tons.

This week the government set the total seed import quota at 33.1 thousand tons.

On the eve of the approaching spring sowing, Russian agricultural producers shared their main difficulties.

According to the latest data, the total export of soybeans and rapeseed to China in 2023 reached $1 billion in monetary terms.

Over the past year, the Russian Federation increased sales of vegetable oil abroad by 33%.
In total, 6.5 million tons of vegetable oil were exported last year.

India, which is one of the leading rice exporters, plans to increase production volumes using digitalization of agriculture.

The department plans to expand the program that helps farmers purchase agricultural equipment.

The US Congress has initiated a bill that will force the US Treasury to take measures to reduce dependence on Russian agricultural products.